Liz O'Donnell's Blog

Ladies, With mixed feelings, I am writing to tell you this is my last post at Hello Ladies. I am so grateful you chose to spend time here over the last six years and I hope we can continue to hang out online together because I’m not leaving – I’m just moving. Hello Ladies started […]

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Courtney Wilson is the founder of DropZone, a location based mobile app that presents veterans with relevant civilian resources, programs and benefits in their area, all of which have been rated and reviewed by fellow veterans.  Checkout her Indiegogo campaign here. There are 21.8 million veterans in America.  There are tens of thousands of civilian resources, programs and benefits available exclusively […]

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Hello Friday! Thank goddess you’re here. I crossed the country and back this week and I am glad to be home. During the trip, my blush cracked open in my makeup bag leaving me with a pink, powdery mess all over everything. The airlines need to be more careful with my face. So I’ve got my eye […]

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Amrita Aviyente is the founder and CEO of Date My Wardrobe, an online marketplace for renting fashion. For Amrita, style isn’t just what you wear; it’s how you live. What drives you? Passion to break out of the rigid, set notions and do what I really believe in. What is your mission? I can’t say it […]

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Working mothers need lots of support. And luckily, there’s plenty available. You know who else needs support? Working daughters. The majority of people caring for aging parents are women. They are trying to balance career, kids and their parents’ needs. And it is not easy. For starters, no one talks about eldercare, at least not […]

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  Busy caregivers need to be as productive as possible. Luckily, more and more app developers are creating tools that make it easier for us to multitask from waiting rooms, monitor our parents’ health and meds, communicate with doctors and siblings, and ask for the help we so desperately need. Here’s our review of six popular apps for […]

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This post was written by our guest blogger Juli Greenwood. Check out her blog 32 surplus.  Much like the recent World Health Organization (WHO) study that confirmed that bacon and hot dogs are bad for our bodies, the Pew Research Center just released real data to support that working parents are struggling to assemble some work life […]

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Thank goddess it’s Friday ladies. I had an exciting week punctuated by a shooting star streaking through the sky last night. I don’t know what it means,  but I know it’s a harbinger of good things to come. And so I’m that dressed for that magic moment when it happens, I’m  eyeing these sparklers from BaubleBar. How […]

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Canada’s new  Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, was sworn in this week and introduced his new cabinet – made up of 50 percent women. When asked why it was important for him to have gender parity on his team, he replied, “Because it’s 2015.” In other news, because it’s 2015, Salesforce.com announced this week that the company made $3 […]

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Two studies out this week that won’t surprise any busy, working mothers. First, Pew Research Center released a report titled, “Raising Kids and Running a Household: How Working Parents Share the Load.”  Examining the fact that the share of two-parent households in which both parents work full time is up from 31 percent in 1970 to 46 […]

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